Locusts of Thought, Inner Dominion

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM lens, the swarm is not punishment but a theater of your own consciousness. The locusts sweeping the earth symbolize relentless thoughts that darken perception and obscure the ground you believe you stand on. They eat the residue of what survived the hail—the last remnants of old fear, memory, and limitation—until you feel there is nothing left of the old world that can be seen. They even devour every tree that grows for you out of the field, representing the forms of life you have imagined into being within your state of mind. Yet this is not final defeat; it is the symbolic invitation to wakefulness. When you remember that you are the I AM, you cease identifying with the swarm; the lights of awareness return, the visions of growth reappear, and the field yields new trees and direction. The outer scene becomes a mirror of your inner claim: I am the ruler, and by imagining it so, you authorize the reality that follows.